Longest book by a single author you've ever read? Multi-volume is okay. Either fiction or nonfiction. How was it?
>>25240975the really long Howard Hughes book that talks about the finance/political perspectives. It needed more anecdotes about him pooping all over the bathroom wall instead of the toilet.
The darkness that comes before, it was dogshit. No book needs to be longer than 400 pages
>>25240975It was definitely a fanfic. Somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000 words.
Harry potter by john ronaldo tolkien
>>25241004>No book needs to be longer than 400 pageszoomer alert
>>25240975War and Peace but there was probably some fanfiction I read when I was a teen that was longer.
>>25240975Dune, War and Peace (currently re-reading), Life and Fate; 3 of the Rama Series, the 5 books of American Secession Alt History by Turtledove for fiction Battle of Byelorussia: Spring Offensives, Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Russians, and Caucasian Battlefields; Gulag Archipelago, the Gulag by applebaum; for non-fiction. With the fiction selection above, they were decent (save for Dune, Life and Fate; War and Peace, those are classics) the Nonfiction was a mix of a slog to get through, dense material and complex material that opened my eyes would do it again if I could
>>25241052>would do it again if I couldwhy can't you?
>>25241010>>25241052What is the deal with these overly long fanfictions anyhow? Do those have any sort of structure or is at all pure nonsensical autismo?I only got into reading at the age of 18, way past the age where i'd care about tween crap like fanfics. But i can't imagine someone writing a Naruto fanfiction longer than the Holy Bible and it not being an schizophrenic mess.
>>25240975Worm. Around 1.5 million+ words.Have no idea how I got through it in just over a month. It was my first time reading a webnovel for long reading. It was definitely a slog in the second half of it, but I just powered through to know how it ended so I could read fanfiction.
>>25241062>What is the deal with these overly long fanfictions anyhow?they don't need an editor or publisher's approval to put the book out
>>25240975In search of lost time and it was the best
>>25241004I agree with this sentiment, broadly. If you are incapable of saying what you want within 15 to 20 hours, there is something wrong. At least as far as fiction is concerned.
>>25240975Pliny's Natural History in its entirety. It was definitely a way to spend two years off and on in undergrad but I don't regret it, I feel like I understand how the Romans viewed the world a lot better now
>>25241062>Do those have any sort of structure or is at all pure nonsensical autismo?most of them are pure nonsensical autismo, but there are a few really good ones. In my experience you can assume anything over ~250,000 is just autism, usually self insert or those fanfics where there are 8 different IPs all mixed together.
>>25241142>there are a few really good ones...like? And you better not say Fallout Equestria
>>25241062>is at all pure nonsensical autismo?Yes. Also think of those fantasy series with several volumes. Sometimes it's like that but in one published form and with no editor or other external restraints.
>>25240975Stripping Of The Altars so far
Anon's effortpost the other day.
>>25240975This longest book I've ever read is Gravity's Rainbow at only 770 pages and 300k words. I haven't read very many long books compared to most /lit/ posters. One day I'll read a book longer than 1000 pages. Until then I remain a pathetic pagelet.
In Search of Lost Time, 4211 pages, it's good
The Bible, which was written by God.
War and Peace for single volumeProbably the Master and Commander series by Patrick O’Brian for longest series
Longest single-author work was War and Peace, at around 600k words, or a collection of all Sherlock Holmes stories, at around 700k words.Longest single-volume work was The Weird, a phone book-format anthology of around 800k words.Longest series was just Redwall.
im through four volumes of in search of lost time
>>25241061I sold Battle of Byelorussia when I got out of re-enacting; and I ended up with 2 time intensive hobbies, work and I've lost my ability to do long-term reading. example, I'm re-reading War and Peace-- started in November and I'm already a 1/4 way through. My old self could make 1/4 thru by January. >>25241062I don't read fanfictions, all of the stuff I mentioned are published books.
>>25241181Designations Congruent with ThingsIt's a Pacific Rim fanfic>The front man Newt hasn't been for a decade steps out of the shadow of the day job he'd loved too much to quit and the night job he'd loved too much to sleep, lifting his latter day and bastardized guitar, remodeled into a remote detonator of his consciousness. He looks at up at the lights, hoping for photobleaching of the psyche on this stage of his own design, backed by a green column of formaldehyde. In that space before the echoed vibration of that first note all audiences anticipate, before he creates that wave of sound and pressure, he feels the floor, he feels his fingertips carefully apposed, and then he squares his shoulders because this is every show he's ever played, man, every time he's ever stared into those lights without counting the faces in the crowd, this is his show-stopper, if Hermann's right this is his heart-stopper, the Freddie Mercury moment that he keeps finding over and over again in increasingly intense variations. And now, with the cover art for the most salient album of his life jacketing his skin in green, here he stands, one terminal in a two terminal system, holding his button and looking at the lights.
>>25240975A Certain Magical Index. 50+ volumes and still going
>>25240975Probably the Count of Monte Cristo. >>25241004>No book needs to be longer than 400 pagesMoby-Dick, Ulysses, Magic Mountain, Gravity's Rainbow
>>25240975Lord Of Chaos I think, it was like what? 500k words or something?
>>25240975Hundred Years War series by Sumption. Nearly 5000 pages of France and England.
>>25240975Single book would be Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Google puts it at around 800,000 words, but the German translation I read is even longer.For series: I Shall Seal the Heavens. I'm actually still reading it, but it already surpassed everything else in length for me. At first this story read like crack, but it started to get repetitive, and I'm not even sure if I want to finish it.
>>25240975The Vicomte of Bragelonne, I think.
>>25241625wtf this reads like Gaddis but with fewer allusions
>>25242146Is it good?
>>25242362There are some real talents floating around out there.
>>25241032Why are you reading fanfiction, twerp?
>>25242550Yeah, I just read through what you posted and… I was surprised. I wonder if any of them have tried branching out and writing something original though? That is, not fanfiction.
>>25242580Impossible to really tell. Most either keep writing fanfics, or they just vanish one day. If they don't say why in an author's note, then it stays a mystery.The real break-outs are, unfortunately, truly shit. 50 Shades of Gray was a Twilight fanfic first, and Cassandra Clare wrote weird incest-y Harry Potter fanfiction.
